Brehon's chair
The Brehon's Chair ( Irish Cathaoir an Bhreithimh ) is the remainder of a portal tomb . It is located in the townland of Taylorsgrange in Rathfarnham near Tallaght , just south of the M50 in County Dublin in Ireland . The "Brehons Chair Road" is named after him. It is a national cultural heritage. Portal tombs are used between 4000 and 2500 BC. Megalithic systems erected in the Neolithic BC in Ireland and Great Britain , in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between, form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
description
The monument consists of three granite stones up to 2.55 m high . It is located on a green area in a modern housing estate, 30 m east of the "Little Dargle River", a tributary of the Dodder , on the northern slope of the Kilmashogue Mountains, amid the remains of an oval cairn about 20.0 m in diameter. Only two portal stones and the door stone are preserved.
Was as a settlement around the throne in the 1980s excavated, were among the found artifacts tools from flint , possibly from the Bronze Age . The grave was looted earlier.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://webgis.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/ Description SMR No: DU022-033 ---- Retrieved January 24, 2020
literature
- Seán P. Ó Ríardáin: Antiquities of the Irish countryside . Ruaidhrí de Valera (Ed.) 1979
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 16 ′ 4.2 " N , 6 ° 15 ′ 53.2" W.